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CJF Reports Increase Hits on YUTorah
Zev Eleff
Issue date: 5/7/07 Section: News
Recent statistics show tremendous growth of the University's YUTorah.org website. The website, first launched in 2005 and now supported by the CJF is now the largest disseminator of Torah lectures online and utilizes RIETS and CJF resources for the use of Yeshiva and general Jewish community.
In the month of February 2005, the website received 401, 929 hits. The number of hits during this March shows that the website was visited 1,487,815 times. The most popular items on the website are the thousands of lectures by RIETS Roshei Yeshiva, but many visitors take advantage of other audio and video casts, as well as Yeshiva publications made available through the site.
Rabbi Brander indicated the CJF's Holiday-to-Go packets distributed online through YUTorah, which in 2007 garnered a 98% increase from the previous year's Sukkot series. In total, the Pesach-To-Go 2007 package was downloaded 20,489 times. Additionally, the 2006 version was downloaded 7,229 times this year.
A Shavuot-To-Go packet will be available soon.
CJF has made YUTorah an important focus of the institution," said Director of Information Technology for the CJF Shalom Silbermintz. "We have a commitment to consistently strong and immediately updated content. The Holiday-To-Go series attracts traffic to all avenues of the website."
Mr. Silbermintz added that through various search features, "people have become acquainted with the website's breadth."
Mr. Silbermintz believes that there is still room for the website to improve. "We will continue to update and enhance the site by bringing new innovative technology to the site and continue to develop its content. This not only attracts new people from all over the world including China, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, but it keeps them coming back."
Mr. Silbermintz asserted that YUTorah has been a central part of the CJF mission statement. "We are convening all the resources of YU to help shape the contemporary Jewish community by supporting individuals - lay, educational and rabbinic leaders - and communities. YUTorah enables that to happen."
In the month of February 2005, the website received 401, 929 hits. The number of hits during this March shows that the website was visited 1,487,815 times. The most popular items on the website are the thousands of lectures by RIETS Roshei Yeshiva, but many visitors take advantage of other audio and video casts, as well as Yeshiva publications made available through the site.
Rabbi Brander indicated the CJF's Holiday-to-Go packets distributed online through YUTorah, which in 2007 garnered a 98% increase from the previous year's Sukkot series. In total, the Pesach-To-Go 2007 package was downloaded 20,489 times. Additionally, the 2006 version was downloaded 7,229 times this year.
A Shavuot-To-Go packet will be available soon.
CJF has made YUTorah an important focus of the institution," said Director of Information Technology for the CJF Shalom Silbermintz. "We have a commitment to consistently strong and immediately updated content. The Holiday-To-Go series attracts traffic to all avenues of the website."
Mr. Silbermintz added that through various search features, "people have become acquainted with the website's breadth."
Mr. Silbermintz believes that there is still room for the website to improve. "We will continue to update and enhance the site by bringing new innovative technology to the site and continue to develop its content. This not only attracts new people from all over the world including China, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, but it keeps them coming back."
Mr. Silbermintz asserted that YUTorah has been a central part of the CJF mission statement. "We are convening all the resources of YU to help shape the contemporary Jewish community by supporting individuals - lay, educational and rabbinic leaders - and communities. YUTorah enables that to happen."
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